Rediscovering Easter Island
By: Kathy Pelta
Series: How history is invented
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Easter Island -- History -- Juvenile literature; Easter Island -- Antiquities -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Juvenile literature
Other titles: Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies
Description: Discusses the many visits made by explorers, missionaries, businessmen, scientists, and others to Easter Island since the late 1600s and what they revealed about life on this remote Pacific island
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 104-108) and index

Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies
Table of contents: title: First visitors: 1722-1771; title: Spreading the word: 1774-1797; title: World moves in: 1805-1864; title: Missionaries and others: 1864-1872; title: Early rediscoverers: 1882-1886; title: Search continues: 1914-1935; title: Methods old and new: 1935-1975; title: Filling in the gaps; title: Historians and prehistorians